What does this mean? Even less hitting. A higher percentage of Castro's outs come from strikouts, and
he makes more outs. No gained plate discipline, somewhat worse.

With Guzman to Castro, you go from a very poor homerun hitter to a horrendous homerun hitter. Guzman's HR/H% was an embarrasing
5% but Castro's percentage is a non-MLB caliber 2.7% (Justin Morneau is at 25%).

Supposedly Castro is a sound defensive player, but Christian Guzman was also (at the very least) a sound shortstop. The
only substantial positive change is the price, which could've been used to keep Corey Koskie but wasn't. Lets see how the
Twins use the saved money.

3B

Player

AB

H

PA

HR

AVG

SB

RBI

SLG

R

BB

PA

Outs

TB

K

K/Outs %

Times on Base

GDP

W/K%

HR/H%

H/Out%

RBI /

Reach Base

Runs /

RBI

SB / Runs

Avg Bases / Hit

H/ RBI

GDP / HR

AB’s per out

GDP%

/outs

HBP

Koskie

422

106

483

25

0.251

9

71

.495

68

49

471

316

209

103

0.325949

167

6

-54

23.585

0.3354

0.4252

0.9577

0.1324

1.9707

1.493

0.24

1.3354

1.8987

12

Cuddyer

339

89

379

12

0.263

5

45

.440

49

37

376

250

149

74

0.296

129

8

-37

13.483

0.356

0.3488

1.0889

0.10204

1.676

1.9778

0.6667

1.356

3.2

3

What does this mean? Some less strikouts, some more productive outs, which has underrated value especially
because the Twins are a very run-manufacturing team. Improved but still poor plate discipline, a staple of the Twins offense
(Not a good thing).

Fewer homeruns. Corey's homerun stretches during the regular season helped lift the team through some rough times. Cuddyer
is still a decent homerun hitter compared to the rest of the lineup, but not a consistent threat like Corey was.

Catcher

Player

AB

H

PA

HR

AVG

SB

RBI

SLG

R

BB

PA

Outs

TB

K

K/Outs %

Times on Base

GDP

W/K%

HR/H%

H/Out%

RBI /

Reach Base

Runs /

RBI

SB / Runs

Avg Bases / Hit

H/ RBI

GDP / HR

AB’s per out

GDP%

/outs

HBP

Blanco

315

65

371

10

0.206

0

37

.368

36

56

371

250

116

56

0.224

121

8

0

15.385

0.26

0.3058

0.973

0

1.7834

1.7568

0.8

1.26

3.2

0

Mauer

107

33

119

6

0.308

1

17

.570

18

11

118

74

61

14

0.189189

45

1

-3

18.182

0.4459

0.3778

1.0588

0.0556

1.8482

1.9412

0.1667

1.4459

1.3514

1

Redmond

246

63

268

2

0.256

1

25

.341

19

14

260

183

84

28

0.153005

85

10

-14

3.1746

0.3443

0.2941

0.76

0.053

1.3315

2.52

5

1.3443

5.4645

8

What does this mean? If Mauer can stay healthy this year we should see him give the offense a considerable
boost. He is a great power threat, and doesn't make a lot of outs. His 2004 Slugging Percentage was an astounding .570, and
his TB/Hits percentage is 1.85 (almost a double for every hit).

If not, than Mike Redmond is a much less attractive offensive alternative. He hits for little to no power or much of anything
for that matter. This is supposed to be okay because he has a good fielding percentage, which isn't something I am quick to
buy into.

This table shows a stat invented by Bill James called Pythagorean expectation. The formula predicts how many games
a team will win based on the number of runs scored and runs allowed. I crunched the 2004 numbers and came up with
some pretty good results